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Sunday, June 1, 2014

Homeopathy for EATING DISORDERS(Anorexia Nervosa )

Homeopathy for EATING DISORDERS

Eating disorders are a group of conditions
characterized by abnormal eating habits. These may involve either
insufficient or excessive food intake to the detriment of an
individual’s physical and emotional health. An eating disorder is not a
disease in and of itself. It is always the symptom or consequence of an
inner core disease. Therefore it cannot be truly cured from the outside
or with superficial treatments; the cure must come from within. And
homeopathic treatment does just that. The most commonly witnessed
examples of eating disorders are binge eating disorder, bulimia nervosa
and anorexia nervosa.

Anorexia Nervosa:

• Description – a
psychological eating disorder wherein the individual refuses to eat
adequately, in spite of hunger. He/she eventually loses enough weight to
become emaciated. Anorexia Nervosa usually beings with a normal
weight-loss diet. The person begins to continually lower his/her food
intake and refuses to stop dieting after reasonable weight-loss. This
disease most commonly affects female adolescents and young adults.
• Causative Factors – clinically unknown.
However, all patients suffering from Anorexia Nervosa acquire it while
in the midst of fighting internal battles in the form of familial,
sexual or emotional conflicts. The risk of the disease increases greatly
from peer and societal pressure to be thin. Most patients were at one
time in their lives slightly overweight, and have perfectionist,
compulsive or overachieving personalities. Psychological stress thus
becomes the overarching cause of Anorexia Nervosa.
• Signs and Symptoms – loss of at least 25%
of body weight without physical illness, high energy levels despite
wasting body, intense fear of obesity, depression, appetite loss,
constipation, a high intolerance of cold, refusal to maintain a minimum
standard weight for age and height, distorted body image, the delusion
of being fat even when emaciated, cessation of menstrual periods.

Bulimia:

• Description – also
known as Bulimina, Binge-Eating Syndrome, Binge-Purge Syndrome or
Bulimarexia. A psychological eating disorder characterized by abnormal
constant craving for food and binge eating, followed by self-induced
vomiting or laxative use. Highly damaging to the brain, central nervous
system, kidneys, liver, endocrine system and the gastrointestinal tract.
Most commonly affects female adolescents or young adults.
• Causative Factors – clinically unknown. The
disease usually begins during or after stringent dieting and is often
caused by stress or insufficient food intake. The risk of the disease is
increased in those who previously suffered from Anorexia Nervosa, are
dealing with depression or stress, are subject to severe lifestyle
changes such as moving or starting at a new school/job or have a
neurotic preoccupation with being physically attractive.
• Signs and Symptoms – recurrent episodes of
binge eating (rapid consumption of a large amount of food in a short
time, usually less than 2 hours), plus at least three of the following:
preference for high-calorie, convenience foods during a binge, secretive
eating during a binge, awareness of abnormal eating patterns and fear
of not being able to stop eating, termination of an eating binge with
purging measures, such as laxative use or self-induced vomiting,
depression and guilt following an eating binge, repeated attempts to
lose weight with severely restrictive diets, frequent weight
fluctuations greater than 10lbs from alternately fasting and gorging, no
underlying physical disorder.

Eating disorders can be very deep seated.
Sometimes the source of the eating disorder begins at birth or early
childhood. Therefore, healing these deep cases may take some time.
Although patients will see some response fairly early in treatment,
monthly follow-ups are necessary for a period of time to monitor the
state of the patient and ensure long term healing.

Homeopathy remedies IN CASES OF EATING DISORDERS

LIQUIDDILUTIONS

INDICATIONS

ALFALFA

Acts as a fat Producer corrects tissue waste. Disorders characterized
by malnutrition are mainly within its therapeutic range, for example,
neurasthenia, splanchnic blues, nervousness, insomnia, nervous indigestion,
etc. Appetite impaired, but chiefly increased even to bulimia. He must eat
frequently, so that he cannot wait for regular meals; hungry in forenoon.
(B).

AVENA SATIVA

Has a selective action on brain and nervous system , favorably
influencing their nutritive function. Best tonic for debility after
exhausting diseases . (B).

BERBERIS AQUAFOLLIUM

Hepatic torpor, lassitude and other evidences of incomplete
metamorphosis; stimulates all glands and improves nutrition. (B).

CALCAREA CARBONICA

Its chief action is centered in the vegetative sphere, impaired
nutrition being the keytone of its action, the glands, skin, and bones,
begging instrumental in the changes wrought. Loss of appetite when
overworked.(B).

CALCAREAPHOSPHORICA

Calc. phos. corresponds to defective nutrition , whether of
childhood, puberty, or of old age.(C).

CALENDULA OFFICINALIS

Bulimia .Hunger immediately after nursing.(B).

CHININUM SUPLHURICUM

Wasting of the body ,also with hectic fever, anorexia,
constipation.(C).

CONDURANGO

Anorexia. The condor plant was introduced into medicines as a cancer
remedy by Dr. Bliss, of Washington. (C) Stimulates the digestive functions
and thus improves the general health.(B).

FERRUM METALLICUM

That iron is what may be called a ‘nutritive’ remedy in certain
defective blood conditions, having an organopathic relation to the blood, I
have no doubt. in the anemia of cancer and syphilis it is often of great
service as an accessory, and need not interfere with more specificremedies .But it is not suited to all cases
of anemia and choruses, or even to a majority of them, and should never be
given without discrimination and careful watching.(C).

FORUM SULPHURICUM

Bulimia, cannot be satisfied thirst not market. Eructation of flatus
and food with acidity sensation of fermentation, or of a noise or movement
like purring of a cat in region of stomach. (C).

Children who from time of birth can swallow solids with ease , yet
choke every time they try to drink, thirst intense with dry mouth .Appetite- Anorexia,
foul breath, white tongue, involving edges as well as dorsum and not
necessarily furred; great languor; violent headache; loathing vomiturition or
vomiting of mucus ; saltiest taste in mouth.(C).

Violent oscillation of symptoms- ravenous hunger to anorexia . All
favor the production of intestinal parasites and all are therefore
anthelmintic. Excessive indulgence in smoke meats and fish is very injurious
to the health.(C).

LECITHIN

Lecithin has a favorable influence upon the nutritive condition and
especially upon the blood hence its use in anemia and convalescence,
neurasthenia and insomnia. Increasing the number of red corpuscles and amount
of hemoglobin.(B).

Bulimia, Hunger with speedy satiety. Anorexia . Uneasiness during
digestion, after almost every kind of food, howeverlittle may have been eaten .Repugnance to
meat and fat, also to hot and cooked ailments; egg. by eating cabbage .After
a meal; obscuration and vertigo; nausea; heaviness and pressure at stomach ;
sleep; or colic, with eructation; or sour risings, congestion in head, cramp
in chest & c.(C).

PHOSPHORUS

Phos; profoundly affects the nutrition and function of every tissue,
notably the hardest (bone) and the softest (nerve and blood). (C).

RAPHANUS SATIVUS

Anorexia .Appetite , without hunger , 4 a.m. in bed. During the
anorexia, longing for boiled milk. Repugnance to tobacco (in the case of one
habituated to its use). (C).

RATANHIA

Anorexia , with dislike to food and drink. Risings, with taste of
food; empty.(C).

RHUS TOXICODENDRON

Anorexia in palate and throat with empty feeling at stomach, and at
same time ravenous hunger, which goes off after sitting for some time.
Anorexia with repugnance to all food, esp. bread, meat, coffee, and wine.
Want of appetite with unquenchable thirst.(C).

Anorexia.es in. morning. Gnawing hunger, with sensation of emptiness
in stomach. Metallic taste in mouth, or taste of urine. (C).

SEPIA

Too salt taste of food . Adipose or excessive thirst, esp.in.morning
and in evening, sometimes with anorexia.Putrid or sour taste . Bulimia with
sensation of emptiness in stomach.(C).

SILICEA

Constitutions which suffer from deficient nutrition due to lack of
assimilating power; oversensitive physically and mentally. Ravenous hunger;
morning; evening; with collection of water in mouth,-Is very hungry; eats as
usual , and then complains that everything seems to be u in the throat. Loss
of taste .(C).

SULPHUR

Complete anorexia and dislike to food, principally to meat, rye bread
, fat, and milk . Dislike to sweet and acid things, or craving for such
things, with anorexia. Taste bitter or too salt or insipidity of food.(C).